Polarimetric SAR speckle filtering and the extended sigma filter

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1150-1160

  Lee, Jong Sen ^a,b   Ainsworth, Thomas L ^a   Wang, Yanting ^a   Chen, Kun Shan ^c,d  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Computation Physics Inc ^*  (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Polarimetric SAR (PolSAR); Speckle reduction; Very high resolution SAR

Indexed keywords

POLARIMETRIC SAR; SIGMA FILTER; SPECKLE FILTERING; SPECKLE REDUCTION; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION;

ALGORITHM; DATA SET; POLARIZATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84907463976     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2014.2335114     Document Type: Article

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